Strawberry Key Lime Margaritas
Happy Monday! I’m sharing my new favorite drink with you!
You may have seen this drink, in some version or another, posted on my Instagram a couple times in the past few weeks. I first made these margaritas for a Cinco de Mayo celebration, and they were so tasty and easy that I knew I’d be making them again.
I offered to make them for some family and friends this weekend, here and Florida, and I decided to give them a little Floridian flair using key limes instead of regular limes. If you can get past squeezing a bajillion little limes (or are smart enough to just buy key lime juice already pressed), it’s a really fun a tasty version!
I love these because they totally take advantage of all of the amazingly fresh strawberries that are filling the grocery stores, right now. I actually bought my strawberries in the back of a pickup truck out front of a restaurant where my mom and sister and I stopped for lunch. We got 2 pounds for $6! Not to mention the literal flat of the most amazing cherry tomatoes we got for just $10! Hooray for random produce finds!
The green salt/sugar mixture that I used to rim my glasses is something that I picked up at a grocery store back in Seattle. It’s salty-sweet and flavored with lime, so I think it work’s perfectly. Of course, you could easily make your own by mixing some margarita salt with a bit of sugar and lime zest, but I did manage to find the one I bought, on Amazon.
I’ve made these with silver tequila and with gold tequila, with triple sec and with Crown Royale…both ways were delicious, and you can just go with whatever you have on-hand.
PrintStrawberry Key Lime Margaritas
Yield: 2-3 margaritas
Ingredients:
- 8 ounces fresh strawberries, hulled
- 1/2 cup tequila (silver or gold)
- 2 tbsp Triple Sec, Cointreau, or Crown Royale
- 1/3 cup freshly-squeezed key lime juice (or regular lime, or even lemon, or a mixture!)
- 2 tbsp agave syrup
- 1 and 1/2 to 2 cups ice
- salt-sugar mixture, for glass rims (see full post for more info about it)
- strawberry halves, to garnish
Directions:
- Combine all of the ingredients in a blender and blend until strawberries are pureed and ice is crushed (I've made these in my Vitamix, and also a NutriBullet with great results).
- Rub one of the squeezed key limes all around the rim of the glasses, then roll in the salt/sugar. Pour the margaritas into the prepared glasses, and garnish with a strawberry half.
recipe adapted from here
